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The so-called Pett Dynasty was a family of shipwrights who prospered in England between the 15th and 17th centuries. It was once said of the family that they were "so knit together that the Devil himself could not discover them". This saying refers to the era during which Samuel Pepys was much involved in getting royal aid for Ann Pett, widow of Christopher Pett.
Mathew Baker (1530–1613) was one of the most renowned Tudor shipwrights, and the first to put the practice of shipbuilding down on paper.
Cameron Holdsworth Parker is a former Scottish businessman and a former Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Parker has been chairman and served on the board of many engineering companies, including British Shipbuilders and was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in the 1980s.
The MV Krait is a wooden-hulled vessel famous for its use during World War II by the Z Special Unit of Australia during the raid against Japanese ships anchored in Singapore Harbour. The raid was known as Operation Jaywick.
Sir Anthony Deane (c.1638–1721) was a 17th-century mayor of Harwich, naval architect, Master Shipwright and commercial shipbuilder, and Member of Parliament.
The Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction was a short-lived shipbuilding college at Portsmouth Dockyard on the south coast of England. It was founded in 1848 but only lasted five years, until 1853. The first Principal was Joseph Woolley, who in 1864 would found the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in South Kensington that became part of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1873.
The Agnes Irving was an iron paddle steamer built in 1862 at Charles Lungley's Dockyard, Deptford Green on the River Thames, London. It was wrecked on 28 December 1879, when it entered the Macleay River on ebb tide whilst carrying general cargo from Sydney, and was lost off the South Spit of the old entrance of Trial Bay, New South Wales.
Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association was a trade union representing shipbuilders in the United Kingdom.
Rear Admiral Sir Jeremy Michael de Halpert, is a former senior Royal Navy officer who served as Naval Secretary from 1998 until his retirement in 2002.
Jeffrey Richard de Corban Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans, is a London shipbroker and UK hereditary peer, who served as Lord Mayor of London from 2015 to 2016.
Thomas Morton was a Scottish shipwright and inventor. His most widely known invention is the patent slip.
George Green was a wealthy philanthropist with a shipyard in Blackwall, London.
Mary Lacy was a British sailor, shipwright and memoirist. She was arguably the first woman to have been given an exam and a pension from the British admiralty as a shipwright.
George Green's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Cubitt Town, on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England.
The Shipwrights Arms is a Grade II listed public house at 88 Tooley Street, London Bridge, London.
The Federated Shipwrights' and Ship Constructors' Association of Australia was an Australian trade union which existed between 1916 and 1976. It represented shipwrights and boatbuilders in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as sea-going shipwrights aboard vessels in the merchant navy.
